Khün language

Khün, or Tai Khün (Tai Khün: ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ /táj kʰɯ̌ːn/; Thai: ไทเขิน [tʰaj kʰɤ̌ːn]), also known as Kengtung Dai, Kengtung-Hsipaw Shan, is the language of the Tai Khün people of Kengtung, Shan State, Myanmar.[2] It is a Tai language that is closely related to Thai and Lao. It is also spoken in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, and Yunnan Province, China.

Not to be confused with Khuen language.
Khun
ᨴᩱ᩠ᨿᨡᩨ᩠ᨶ
Pronunciation/táj kʰɯ̌ːn/
Native toMyanmar (Shan State), Thailand
RegionKengtung
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1990)[1]
Kra–Dai
Tai Tham script, Thai script
Language codes
ISO 639-3kkh
Glottologkhun1259

Geographical distribution

In China, there are about 10,000 Tai Khuen (Chinese: 傣艮/傣痕) people in the following areas of Yunnan province (Gao 1999).[3]

Phonology
  Labial Alveolar Postalveolar
/ palatal		 Velar Glottal
Nasal [m] [n] [ɲ] [ŋ]  
Plosives
and
affricates		 aspirated [pʰ] [tʰ] [tɕʰ] [kʰ]  
tenuis [p] [t] [tɕ] [k] [ʔ]*
voiced [b] [d]  
Fricative [f] [s]     [h]
Trill   [r]**      
Approximant   [l] [j] [w]  
* The glottal stop is implied after a short vowel without final, or silent before a vowel.
** The [r] is often used with Sanskrit and Pali loanwords.

See also

References
  1. Khun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. bloggang.com (thai)
  3. Gao Lishi 高立士. 1999. 傣族支系探微. 中南民族学院学报 (哲学社会科学版). 1999 年第1 期 (总第96 期).


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